Gravity, a Geometrical Course: Volume 2: Black Holes, Cosmology and Introduction to Supergravity - Softcover

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Acknowledgement.- Preface.- 1.- Introduction.- 2. Extended Space-Times, Causal Structure and Penrose Diagrams.- 3. Rotating Black-Holes and Thermodynamics.- 4. Cosmology: a Historical Outline from Kant to WMAP and Planck.- 5. Cosmology and General Relativity: Mathematical Description of the Universe.- 6. Supergravity: the Principles.- 7. The Branes: Three Viewpoints.- 8. Supergravity: a Bestiary in Diverse Dimensions.- 9. Supergravity: an Anthology of Solutions.- 10. Conclusion of Volume Two.- Appendix A. Spinors and gamma matrix algebra.- Appendix B. Auxiliary tools for p-brane actions.- Apprndix C. Auxiliary information about some superalgebras.- Appendix D. Mathematica Package NOVAMANIFOLDA.- Appendix E. Examples of the use of the package NOVAMANIFOLDA.- Index.

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